Destruction Ethics and Intergalactic Love

<p><em>Destruction, Ethics, and Intergalactic Love: Exploring </em>Y: The Last Man <em>and </em>Saga offers a creative and accessible exploration of the two comic book series, examining themes like nonviolence; issues of gender and war; heroes and moral failures; forgiveness and seeking justice; and the importance of diversity and religious pluralism.</p><p>Through close interdisciplinary reading and personal narratives, the author delves into the complex worlds of <em>Y</em> and <em>Saga</em> in search of an ethics, meaning, and a path resonant with real-world struggles. Reading these works side by side, the analysis draws parallels and seeks common themes around the four central ideas of seeking and making meaning in a meaningless world; love and parenting through oppression and grief; peacefulness when surrounded by violence; and the perils and hopes of diversity and communion.</p><p>This timely and thoughtful study will resonate with scholars and students of comic studies, media and cultural studies, philosophy, theology, literature, psychology, and popular culture studies.</p> <p><em>List of Figures; </em><em>Acknowledgements: Joy and Gratitude Amidst Distress; </em>Introduction: Death, Decay, and Destruction: Only the Beginning; <strong>Part I: Seeking Meaning in a Meaningless World</strong>; 1. Ethics (and Art) After the Plague; 2. Inky Darkness: Ethics Amidst Intergalactic War (and The Narrative); Reflection on Part I; <strong>Part II: Love and Parenting Through Oppression and Grief</strong>; 3. Love and Identity: A Numeric and Heroic Journey; 4. (Intergalactic) Fatherhood: Failure and Maternal Hope; Reflection on Part II; <strong>Part III: Being Peace but Surrounded by Violence</strong>; 5. Blessed Are the Peacemakers: Gender and Violence; 6. On the Perils of Pacifism During War; Reflection on Part III; <strong>Part IV: Beyond Diversity and Tolerance: Towards Communion</strong>; 7. Post-Religion: Sex, God, Women, Love; 8. Enfolding the Grotesque and the Borderless: A Politics for All; Reflection on Part IV; Conclusion: Love in the Throes of Destruction and Despair; <em>Bibliography; </em><em>Index</em></p>